Hidden Places by Claudia Martin is currently scheduled for release on April 14 2024. From the psychedelic salt mines of Yekaterinburg in Siberia to the rugged, green-tinted Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre in Mexico, Hidden Places roams across the globe in search of hidden treasures and secret places off the beaten track. Explore the Silfra Deep Trench in Iceland, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet to create a remarkable rift and freshwater dive site; experience the weirdest of woodland walks through the Crooked Forest in Pomerania, Poland, where a grove of 400 pines are uniformly curved; marvel at the colourful, gold-plated temple of Doi Suthep in northern Thailand; or visit the world’s highest sand dune, Grande Dune du Pilat, on the Bordeaux coast. Each location is accompanied by a caption explaining the geography and history of the place. Illustrated with 180 colour photographs, Hidden Places ranges from the sparse landscape of the Arctic Circle to the rich rainforests of the Amazon basin. Read this book and discover the special, hidden places that will come to define your bucket list – many of which are much closer to home than you think.
Hidden Places is a lovely collection of images with a brief disruption about each photograph and what really makes the location special and relatively unknown by travelers. I thought the chosen photographs were stunning, and they focused on the wonders of the landscape for the most part but with select human structures where appropriate. I am not much of a traveler, but I found that this book gave me a bit of wonderlust. However, I am going to channel that into finding some quiet and beautiful locations a little closer to home than those in this book. 
